CARLOS CARRASCO CARTER DOTSEN FEMALE_ER_DOC GORDO GREEN HAYES JAVIER JDUB JEFFERSON JESSICA JONES JORGE KIM LOPEZ MALE_GUARD MALE_RESIDENT MAN MARCIELA OLD_LADY SAM WOMAN LOPEZ This is Lopez. SAM Ryan, where are you? LOPEZ Uh, home. Sleeping. What's up? SAM Carlos Acosta was gunned down tonight. LOPEZ I guess it was only a matter of time, huh? SAM Yeah, well. Don't break out the champagne yet. He's still alive. Ryan, hold on. I want this perimeter sealed. Make sure you know who's coming or going. I'm down at Our Lady of Thérèse. Doctors are trying to save him. SAM Ryan, you there? LOPEZ Yeah. Yeah, I'm, uh, I'm on my way. CARRASCO One, two, three! CARRASCO Get me two bags of O-neg. WOMAN Get the I.V. started. CARRASCO Gauze. Put him up. CARRASCO Wait a minute. Call the chief of surgery. MALE RESIDENT For a gangbanger? CARRASCO This is Javier Acosta's son. I'm not telling him I lost his kid. Crack his chest, get the spreader. MAN Just take a look at it for me. SAM Acosta's in surgery. The Lords shot him all to hell, but he's still hanging on. LOPEZ How do we know it was the Lords? SAM Word spread, they're bragging about it all over town. There's gonna be a full-scale war between the Lords and Los Angelicos if we don't slam the lid on this right now. LOPEZ We need to find those shooters. DOTSEN This bastard killed Tanner. We shouldn't be busting the guys who did it. We should be pinning a medal on them. GORDO ¿Qué onda, pelón? SAM Where is he, Gordo? JAVIER Oh, my prayers have been answered. It's the police. The last time you made a house call, you were kicking down my door in the middle of the night. SAM That's right. We were looking at you for the Sleepy Reed murder up in Oxnard. JAVIER Right, right. That's before you made captain. SAM And before you could afford $500-an-hour lawyers. I'm very sorry about your son, Javier. But we both know that I can't allow you to do what you're planning to do. JAVIER And what is that? SAM Go after Lavar Quintel's son. JAVIER And why would I go after the head of the Lords' boy? SAM Blood for blood. That's the Los Angelicos way, isn't that right? JAVIER You know, the Bible calls it "an eye for an eye." So... why is it when good white folk like you sing the Book's praises on Sunday it's okay? But when the Mexican says it, that's the devil's work? SAM You don't have to do it, Javier. JAVIER Don't I? Is that right? Let me ask you. If one of my men were to gun down your daughter-- Jessica, right?-- would you just turn the other cheek? SAM Is that some kind of threat? JAVIER No, no. You don't care enough about your own daughter for it to be one. SAM What did you say to me?! LOPEZ Easy! Easy! Not here. LOPEZ Not now. JAVIER In a house of God, you threaten a grieving father? Never cease to surprise me, Chapel. LOPEZ He wants justice. Maybe if we get those shooters off the streets, it'll satisfy him. GREEN Javier don't want justice. He want to punish those boys. DOTSEN Yeah, but how does arresting them do that? SAM Because once they're in jail, Javier can get to them without the chance of innocent lives being caught in the crossfire. We have to move while there's still time. Check your primaries, find those shooters. Get us our leverage back. LOPEZ You need to stop this. JAVIER What? LOPEZ You got the entire family holed up in here. That means you're about to start a war. JAVIER Start it? It started when they came after my son. And when someone's son is in the hospital fighting for his life, you start the conversation with, "I'm sorry for what happened. I'm praying for your son." LOPEZ I am sorry, Javier. I really am. I know what happened to Carlos is devastating. But if you go after Lavar's son, the Lords will respond and everything that we've been working towards will be destroyed. JAVIER So? What would you have me do, huh? Step back and do nothing? LOPEZ I'd have you think before reacting. I'd have you think about the family. Your wife, daughters. JAVIER I am thinking about my wife and daughters! If I don't strike back when someone goes after my family, we're sending a message to every gang in the city that Los Angelicos is weak, afraid and cannot protect themselves. You know, I might as well hang a target on every member of this family's back. Including yourself. Unfortunately, Ryan, in this life, there are times when only violence keeps them safe. LOPEZ This isn't one of those times. Let me do my job, Javier. Don't start this war. JAVIER It's already started. GREEN It's ugly, man. Like the O.K. Corral out here. Got six dead Lords. And three Angelicos. Chalk that one up. Nobody's talking. Gotta stop this. LOPEZ Any leads on Carlos's shooters? GREEN Nah. The hood got this one on lockdown. Where you going? LOPEZ I'll catch you at the Brig, man. JDUB Boo, will you bring me something to drink? Hey, who the hell are...?! You're Cassius' partner! LOPEZ You're the guy who knows who shot up Carlos Acosta. Get off the bed! Let's go! Up against the wall now! Who were the shooters? JDUB I don't know what the hell you talking about, bro. LOPEZ I don't have time for this! I need the names of those triggermen now! JDUB Marlon, wait! Yo, Marlon, stop! Marlon, he's a cop! Marlon, he's a cop! GREEN Hey! Get your black ass up. GREEN Damn, J-Dub, so you're the cub? Hey, Lopez, what the hell you doing here, man? Why you sneaking up to see my informant without telling me? LOPEZ Look, I know J-Dub's your C.I., but he's also a Lord, and we're running out of time. We need the names of those shooters, and I was prepared to do things you wouldn't. GREEN Like what? I bust ass, too. LOPEZ Yeah, but you wouldn't have. Not with him. GREEN Look, vato, if we're gonna be partners, I need you 100% honest. You feel me? LOPEZ So you got the tip on Carlos? Man, you got your chubby little fingers in everything, don't you? JDUB I got a trustworthy face. GREEN And three trustworthy chins. JDUB Yo, where the hell y'all taking me, man? GREEN This is our new interrogation unit. JDUB Man, hold up. In a shipping container? LOPEZ Budget cuts hit everyone, bro. GREEN You gotta give the homeys up, J-Dub. JDUB I can't do that, man. I can't snitch on them. LOPEZ You ain't got a choice! Javier's gonna find one of those guys eventually. They're gonna roll right over on you. GREEN And not the way you like it. JDUB But I didn't pull the trigger, man! LOPEZ Maybe not, but you know who did, right? You think Javier Acosta's gonna forgive that? GREEN No, he's gonna shove an apple in that big ol' mouth of yours, have Tio Gordo roast you up like a fat pig. JDUB What am I gonna do, man? Y'all gotta help me! LOPEZ Help us. Give us the names of the shooters. We'll see if we can get you into witness protection. GREEN It's a good deal, baby. JDUB All right, man, we good? GREEN Hold up. One more thing. LOPEZ Come on. We got what we need. GREEN Who tipped you off to Carlos Acosta's location? JDUB I mean, to be honest, I thought that was you, Cassius. After I heard you busted Carlos and couldn't hold him, I figured that didn't sit too well. I mean, he did kill one of your boys, right? GREEN We didn't do 'em. JDUB Then if it wasn't you, it must've been somebody from Javier's camp who had beef with him. LOPEZ What makes you say that? JDUB Why else would somebody give me all the dirty details to where Acosta's son would be? Check it out. I got a text right there on my cell phone from a blocked number. GREEN We find out who sent this, we'll know who wanted Carlos dead. JDUB Uh... hello? SAM We just received a break on the Acosta shooting. These are the four shooters Calvin Jones, aka Scrap, Rolin Hayes, Omari Turner, aka Lil' O, Taj Depina. All hard-core gangbangers. So I want intel on these guys ASAP. Everything we got, warrants, associates, location. DOTSEN I recognize Hayes. Guy's a junkie. Busted him a few times at a crack house on Union. We could pay him a visit. SAM Good. Check it out. The rest of you hit the streets. Shake your C.I.'s. Remind 'em why they're called "informants." Let's go. JESSICA Detective Lopez? LOPEZ Yes? JESSICA ADA Chapel. This is Detective Carter, IA. We'd like to ask you some questions about your partner Tanner in the shooting. SAM Damn it, Jess, what are you doing? JESSICA Well, Dad, see, this is what happens when you duck interviews at the D.A.'s office. We pop up at increasingly bad times. SAM Lopez is in the middle of an investigation. I need him on the street, not in an interview room. CARTER Figured you'd say that, Sam. That's why I got this love letter from the chief's office. Lopez doesn't talk to us, he's off the street effective immediately. JESSICA This way, Detective. DOTSEN Let's go see if the zombies are awake. KIM Take a hike. DOTSEN Tae, that's Hayes. HAYES Pigs! KIM Get off her! DOTSEN That went well. KIM Don't move. DOTSEN What? Get it off of me! Get it off! KIM Don't, don't, don't, don't! LOPEZ I don't get why we have to go over all this again. CARTER I'm just trying to clearly understand what happened, Detective. LOPEZ I've already told you. And it's in my report. I know. I've heard it and I've read it. It's just, it doesn't add up. Why don't you tell me what you think happened? CARTER I don't know. I wasn't there. I just find it interesting that two members of the Gang Task Force just happened to be having a drink in a bar one block away from where a major Fishscale deal was going down. LOPEZ You think we were there on purpose? CARTER How would I know that? Okay, yeah, maybe you two went to get a piece of the action. Or maybe you went there for that, and when your partner balked, you killed him. Is that what happened? LOPEZ He was my friend. We're done here. CARTER Great. Just, uh, leave your badge on the table on your way out. LOPEZ Excuse me? CARTER Well, this isn't a trial. You can leave whenever you want. But as a law enforcement officer, the Lybarger Code is very clear you refuse to answer my questions, you will be terminated immediately. LOPEZ You're right. You're right about all of it. I killed my partner. We were drinking. He was drunk. We should've called it in, waited for backup, but... we went inside instead. And, uh, in the haze, we got separated. I let him down. I let his family down. If I had just stopped him before he went in there, he would be home right now with his wife and kids. So, yeah... Tanner is dead because of me. And I'm gonna have to live with that for the rest of my life. Is that what you wanted to hear? Or do we need to continue? CARTER You said you were sep... JESSICA No. That'll be enough. CARTER You buy that? JESSICA I do. CARTER Even a bad cop is good 95% of the time. JESSICA What I saw was a guy who was hurting. Unless you can show me the other five percent, something real, then as far as the D.A.'s office is involved, this investigation is closed. FEMALE ER DOC Look, we ran the needle. It came back negative. It's all your blood. Unfortunately, we don't know what was on that needle when it went into you. DOTSEN When are you gonna find out? FEMALE ER DOC It could take six months. We'll monitor you every six weeks and see what develops. Best thing to do is start you on a post-exposure cocktail. DOTSEN No, no. If I have something, I need to find out right now. There's got to be a faster way. FEMALE ER DOC I'm sorry, without knowing who's using that needle, there's nothing else I can do. Start the meds, Agent Dotsen. DOTSEN All right, back to work. KIM You okay? DOTSEN Yeah. KIM You sure? DOTSEN Mm-hmm. KIM I figured you'd want to take the rest of the day off. DOTSEN I don't, but you know, you can if you want to, slacker. SAM Thanks to Tae and Vee, Rolin Hayes gave up the location of the other three shooters, and surveillance just confirmed the intel. The men we're looking for are all gonna be three-strikers. This one, Taj Depina, is extra special. He beat a female patrol officer to death. These people are not afraid to kill cops, so we gotta be careful. Our suspects are hiding out in three houses. We're gonna go in at dawn and surprise 'em in their sleep. Lopez, you'll run point. Go time. LOPEZ Go time. SAM Rangers lead the way. LOPEZ Hooah. Move out. Alpha and Bravo in position. SAM Let's go. OLD LADY One time! One time! OLD LADY One time! One time! SAM We've been compromised. LOPEZ Find cover. LOPEZ All units, shots fired! Shots fired, our location! I repeat, all units, shots fired! Shots fired, our location! GREEN Welcome to the neighborhood. DOTSEN Let's go. DOTSEN Bravo team moving into position. SAM I need a sitrep, now! LOPEZ Alpha team good. Closing in on target. SAM Bravo team, what's your status? DOTSEN Bravo good. Preparing to breach. KIM Good? DOTSEN Yeah. KIM Don't! LOPEZ We're in position. GREEN I got him! He's mine! LOPEZ Freeze! LOPEZ LAPD! Stop! LOPEZ Don't move! LOPEZ You have the right to remain silent, which I strongly suggest you do right now. SAM I got this one. SAM Freeze! SAM Drop the weapon. LOPEZ What happened? SAM Well, I had him pinned down by the window, and... he just jumped. In a second, we're gonna go inside. Uh-huh. I guess he figured he'd rather see if he could fly than go back to Chino. DOTSEN That didn't work out well for him. KIM Third-striker. SAM Good job. But we're still not out of this mess. Now that we have the shooters, we have to convince Javier Acosta to end it. GREEN With Carlos laying on his deathbed, man, that's gonna be a long shot. LOPEZ Let me try. His son killed my partner. Way I see it, he owes me one. There were four shooters. One was killed in Parkside, the other three are in our custody. It's over now. It ends here. JAVIER Sangre por sangre, mijo. It ends when I find Lavar Quintel's son. LOPEZ Javier... you've made your point. The Lords are running in fear, the other gangs, they've been sent a message. You can end this. But not if you go after Lavar's son. You do that... ...there's no turning back. MARCIELA These men... who shot up my son... I want them to suffer. I want their mothers to sit by their beds, wondering if they will live or die. JAVIER Mi amor... MARCIELA I know that that will not help Carlos. And it'll just put Ryan, Daniel and the girls at risk. So what I need, Javier, lo qué necesito, is to know that I will never have to go through this with any of them again. Promise me. Tell me you will not retaliate. JAVIER Okay. Okay. I give you my word. Lo prometo, mi amor. GREEN How'd it go with Javier today? LOPEZ It went well. I think he's backing off. GREEN Good, man. Maybe we can get some downtime, you know? I got this fine honey I been marinating for months. Tonight it's gonna crack. LOPEZ Oh, yeah? What's his name? GREEN You got jokes again, right, ese? Let me tell you something you play your cards right, I'll let you talk to her cousin. She's fine. LOPEZ Oh. That's her? GREEN Yeah. LOPEZ Yeah, I'm good. GREEN Did you see that booty, though? Boy, I think she's fine, dude. LOPEZ Why we stop? GREEN Spoke to our tech agent down at the Brig. She went through J-Dub's phone. I mean, she didn't hack the number, but she was able to triangulate where the text came from. She said somewhere around here. LOPEZ Interesting. So, uh... what are we looking for? GREEN Witnesses. LOPEZ There's nothing here, man. It's a waste of time. Let's get out of here. GREEN Boo-yah. GREEN Surveillance camera. ¿Qué pasa, señor? Look, we don't mean to bother you, but we'd like to take a look at some footage on your surveillance camera outside. JORGE Uh, no. GREEN What you mean, no? You see this badge right here? JORGE Yeah, unless you have a warrant, I don't have to show you anything. GREEN Don't make me be a hard-ass, man. JORGE Every time my store gets robbed or something happens out there, police always come in asking for my security hard drive. Right? They take it, they promise to bring it back... They never do. Now, $200 it costs me to replace it each time. It's cheaper to just get robbed. GREEN I'm gonna call that warrant in. JORGE Oh, come on, man, you don't have to do this. What is su problema? LOPEZ My guess is maybe you're paying out cash on EBT cards and food stamps? JORGE Ah... No. LOPEZ No? Not even taking a cut, maybe from the local bangers, letting 'em sell dope in your parking lot? JORGE No, it's not like that. LOPEZ I don't even really care about that. Let me see the footage. If what I need is on it, that's all I'll take. But if my partner has to come back here with a warrant... ¡ay! JORGE Okay. All right. LOPEZ Come on, come on... Come on... Come on. GREEN Lopez. How'd you get him to play ball, man? LOPEZ Yo hablo español. You gotta work on your Spanish, man. GREEN Yeah, yeah, right, right. Let's see what we got here. Detail's too grainy. Can't make out who it is. Looks like a SA Ferrari. Even you got one of those. Could be you in there, for all I know. LOPEZ Well... we tried. JDUB All right, this is whack, man. I want out of here. Changed my mind. Hey, Cassius, man, your people trippin'. GREEN Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, what's wrong, y'all? What's up, J-Dub? JESSICA Now he's having second thoughts. JDUB I ain't having no second thoughts. You didn't tell me the deal. The whole deal. Ain't no way I'm going anywhere without Marlon. JESSICA The deal is for you, your direct family or your spouse only. GREEN A deal's a deal, J-Dub. JDUB He's my heart, man. I can't leave him. JESSICA I can't take him. LOPEZ What if you could? GREEN I don't think I like where this is going, man. LOPEZ All we need is a judge. We could paper this up in two minutes. Leaving everything he's ever known. Never see his family again. At least he won't be alone. JESSICA I will see what I can do. No promises, though. GREEN You got to respect the power of love. LOPEZ You're welcome. KIM Easy. DOTSEN What the hell are you doing here? KIM Keeping you from getting killed. DOTSEN Yeah, well, you should leave. I'm not here to make an arrest. KIM Then you'll need some backup. DOTSEN Took a print off the syringe that stuck me and got a hit. Name is Clay Jefferson. Number 213. JEFFERSON Who the hell are you? DOTSEN Think you dropped this. DOTSEN Come here! JEFFERSON Aah! What the hell you doing to me, girl? DOTSEN Shut up! DOTSEN You stick me? Only fair I stick you back. If I find out you killed me, I'll be back to return the favor. MALE GUARD Open up D block. MALE GUARD Opening the door to the yard. JONES Yo, this ain't where we supposed to be going, man! What's up with that?! MARCIELA Javi? Javi? Carlito? Carlito? You see? God rewarded us. Because you didn't kill anyone. DOTSEN Hello? FEMALE ER DOC Ms. Dotsen? DOTSEN Yeah? FEMALE ER DOC The blood work from the guy who stuck you came back. I'm sorry to say, but they're positive for HIV. Now, that doesn't mean you'll contract the virus, but if you haven't started the meds, I want you to start that cocktail immediately. DOTSEN All right, thank you so much. KIM Well? DOTSEN Clean. KIM Knew it. KIM Nothing to worry about. DOTSEN Yeah. GREEN By the power vested in me, the Internet, and the state of California, I pronounce you husband and husband. You two be careful out there. JDUB Thanks for everything, man. SAM How the hell they planning on hiding those two? GREEN I'm happy that's not in my jurisdiction. JESSICA Ryan? Who would've thought, huh? LOPEZ Thanks for making it happen. JESSICA Yeah. LOPEZ Must be a relief for him. JESSICA To be married? LOPEZ To stop living a lie. JESSICA I'm sorry. About your partner. And for Carter today. That wasn't fair. LOPEZ It's okay. JESSICA No, it wasn't. But I don't blame him. He's not wrong about my father. LOPEZ Look, I don't know what happened between you and your dad, but I trust him. JESSICA I know. I did, too. Look, you ever want to talk about it, call. LOPEZ Okay. JESSICA Good night. I was told it was urgent. CARTER This is dash cam footage from a cop car that was parked at a fast food restaurant four blocks from the warehouse where Tanner was killed. The cop was inside. The dash was just rolling. JESSICA It's a wall. CARTER Yes, it's not the video that's interesting. It's the audio. CARTER Fast-forward here. CARTER Lopez claimed it was approximately seven seconds between the two shots that were fired at Tanner and the third shot that was fired at him. According to this, it was 58 seconds. Now, I-I understand fog of war, things get blurred in the heat of battle, but 58 seconds? That's a far cry from seven. What was happening between those shots? JESSICA Play it again. CARLOS Ain't getting rid of me that easy. CARRASCO I hear our patient's up. MARCIELA Our son's gonna be okay now, right? CARRASCO Well, the good news is we were able to successfully remove four out of the seven bullets. But there are fragments still inside. They're lodged here between the L4 and the L5 vertebrae. And they can't be removed without risking permanent paralysis. MARCIELA But... that's okay. Right? CARRASCO I'm afraid we don't know the extent of nerve damage quite yet, Mrs. Acosta. Carlos, I'm just gonna test the reflexes on your feet. Tell me if you feel this. CARLOS I don't feel... anything. What the hell's going on? How come I can't feel my legs? CARRASCO There has most likely been substantial damage to the spinal cord. JAVIER Is it permanent? CARRASCO It's too early to tell. There's still swelling in the area now. It could be temporary, but... JAVIER But what? CARRASCO Injuries such as these, the likelihood that your son will regain mobility from his waist down... I'm sorry to say it's highly unlikely. CARLOS You're saying I'll never walk again. CARRASCO I won't be able to tell until the swelling goes down. Now, I'll check in with you in the morning and we can talk about our options. Please know we did everything we could. CARLOS I want to be alone now. MARCIELA We're gonna get you the best care, with the best physical therapy... CARLOS Get out! MARCIELA Mijo. CARLOS Please. Please leave, Mama. MARCIELA Okay. I'll go get your things. Okay. JAVIER We're gonna get through this, okay? CARLOS Okay. CARLOS Move! You stupid... Stupid... Move! MARCIELA Where are you going? JAVIER Tio? Find Lavar Quintel's son. GORDO What's the plan? JAVIER Sangre por sangre.